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'Urban Design: Health and the Therapeutic Environment' demonstrates how urban design and planning impact on public health and sustainable development. Moughtin et al. explore the concept of what makes a physically and psychologically ‘healthy’ environment in the context of the paramount need for new homes where living standards are not compromised, in increasingly crowded cities.

• Sets out the history and development of the healthy city, from the English spa town to standards of care in Cuba to provide a context for modern urban health development.

Emeritus Professor Cliff Moughtin was Professor of Planning in The Queen’s University Belfast and The University of Nottingham. He is author of a number of books including the series of five Urban Design titles for Architectural Press.

Kate McMahon Moughtin is a psychotherapist. She is author of Focused Therapy for Organisations and Individuals. She is interested in how literature and environmental infl uences contribute to wellbeing.

Paola Signoretta is a human geographer. She is a senior research associate in the Centre for Research in Social Policy, Loughborough University. She is interested in the geographies of health, deprivation and social and financial exclusion.

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"This final book in the series on Urban Design aims to open up the subject to a wider arena. It sets out to explore the nature of therapeutic environment and identify how this can be designed. The first of three parts sets out the theoretical background for health and the therapeutic environment, the second relates this to British radical and philanthropic tradions, and the last extrapolates design principles. Its scope makes it a good primer for those wishing to broaden their understanding og the context for urban design."

Juliet Bidgood, Urban Design

Contents

Part 1: Theoretical And Conceptual Background 1. Epidaurus 2. Health and Well-Being in the City 3. The Healthy Citizen: Healing the City 4. Havana, Cuba Part 3: The Therapeutic Environment: The British Tradition 5. Bath 6. The Age of Protest 7. New Lanark 8. The City Sanitized 9. Port Sunlight: The Birth of the Garden Suburb Part 4: The Therapeutic Environment In The Twenty-First Century 10. Urban Design and the Environmental Challenge (Case Study: Nottingham) 11. Health and the Bioregion 12. The Healthy City Structure (Case Study: Copenhagen) 13. The Healthy Quarter: The Garden Suburb (Case Study: Freiburg) 14. A Suburban Renaissance (Case Study: The Meadows, Nottingham) 15. Conclusion